Reports of NBA labor trouble might be a little premature

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-heisler29-2009mar29,0,7265183.column

David Falk (remember him?) predicts a lockout, but cooler heads should prevail before 2011.
Mark Heisler
March 29, 2009

Here's an update on the 2010 free-agent class with LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, Amare Stoudemire, et al.: There isn't going to be one.

The entire league is buzzing about The Lockout of 2011, as if David Stern just rode across the sky in a flaming chariot with a scythe, spelling "Repent by 2011" with his exhaust.



Ed Kosmicki / EPA
NBA union chief Billy Hunter, left, will be trying to strike a deal with Commissioner David Stern at some point in the next two years.

"I think it's going to be very, very extreme, because I think that the times are extreme," former super-agent David Falk told the New York Times.

"The owners have the economic wherewithal to shut the thing down for two years, whatever it takes, to get a system that will work long-term."

Did I fall asleep for two years and miss Dow 1,000?

Of course, the economy scares everyone and pundits are pundits. Then there are the people with personal agendas, like Falk, the greatest user even agent-dom ever saw, pushing projections like:

Forget free agency in 2010.

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